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✅ Premium Quiz: Cybersecurity Mistakes & Best Practices

Instructions:
Answer all 10 questions carefully. This quiz is designed to help reinforce your understanding of critical security concepts for small businesses.

 

Results

#1. Which of the following password practices is the most secure?

Use one strong password for all your accounts

Use a password manager to store unique passwords per account

Change your password every 3 days

Write your password in a notebook and keep it near your desk

#2. An employee receives an email from “support@securemail.co” asking them to confirm their login. What should be the first thing they check?

Whether the email uses their full name

If the email contains spelling mistakes

The sender’s actual email domain and the link destination

Whether it says “urgent” in the subject line

#3. What is the main risk of reusing the same password across multiple websites?

It makes remembering passwords easier

It confuses hackers

A breach on one site could give attackers access to all accounts

It locks you out if one password is reset

#4. What does the “least privilege” principle mean in a small business environment?

Everyone shares access so tasks get done faster

Only managers get full access to all files

Employees should only have access to what they need to do their job

Staff can request admin access when they need it

#5. Your company laptop shows a prompt to install a security update. What’s the best action?

Postpone it until the end of the week

Turn off the device to avoid the update

Install it immediately or as soon as possible

Contact a colleague to see if they’re doing the update too

#6. Which of the following scenarios poses the highest risk when using public Wi-Fi?

Watching YouTube

Logging into your company email without a VPN

Reading public news websites

Using your own mobile data

#7. Your company lost important client files because of a hardware failure. What key mistake likely caused this?

Using a weak password

Not performing regular backups

Not logging out of devices

Failing to update the antivirus

#8. What is one simple way to confirm that a website is safe before entering login details?

Make sure the site uses HTTPS and the domain is correct

Check if the site looks professional

See if your browser auto-fills your password

Look for an image of a lock anywhere on the page

#9. A staff member accidentally clicked a phishing link. What is the first correct action?

Delete the email and pretend nothing happened

Restart the device

Notify IT/security immediately

Change your background wallpaper

#10. Why are small businesses targeted more often than large companies?

Hackers prefer smaller profits

Small businesses usually have weaker defenses

They often store more valuable data

They never report incidents to the police

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